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Academic journal publishing is more complex than popular journal publishing. There are legal, academic, ethical, and technical rules and standards that academic journals must comply with. One of the technical standards is the provision of rich metadata. To open scientific publications to the international scientific world, it is vital to assign DOI, to use unique identifiers such as ORCID for authors, ROR ID for institutions, and to provide rich metadata. It is crucial to assign DOIs to these publications. Unfortunately, very few academic books in Turkey are assigned DOIs. DOI usage in refereed journals is better. However, we are faced with other problems here. The information in the PDF files of the articles and the article metadata used in DOI retrieval should be the same. However, while the PDF file contains current data, article metadata may contain information older than the first version of the study. DOI assignment is a technical process. Firstly, the minimum information about the article should be sent to the Crossref system, and the DOI should be assigned. Secondly, the article metadata should be fully registered in the Crossref system. Many publishers do not perform this second process. Although DOI is assigned to the articles by paying a fee, the article metadata is not sent to Crossref and opened to the international community. Another problem is that article metadata is sent to Crossref only in the language of the article. However, rich metadata should be sent to Crossref in Turkish and English. It is necessary to assign DOIs to Turkey-centred scientific books and even to assign DOIs to all academic books backwards. In addition, making the rich metadata of publications available through Crossref in Turkish and English languages thanks to the DOI obtained by paying a fee, will increase the visibility of Turkey-based scientific production in a short time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]